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Windows PC Sales Keep Lagging: 10 Factors Holding Back the M...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Despite Windows 8’s launch and analysts’ initial hopeful estimates, Windows PC sales are down considerably and computer makers are scrambling to figure out why. When Windows 8 launched on Oct. 26, the operati [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Acer Aspire S7

As one of the first products specifically designed for Windows 8 we've spent a significant amount of time with, the new Acer Aspire S7 ultrabook is an excellent advertisement for Microsoft's new OS. Rather than simply install [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Logitech Laptop Speaker Z305 Review

My laptop is my home away from home. It serves as everything from office to stereo to audio game centre. Being totally blind, I truly care about how things sound. Sadly, as far as laptop designers are concerned, sound is at best an ill-co [...]

Posted On : Jun, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Qualcomm Planing Quad-Core Snapdragon S4 Chipsets For Smartb...

Qualcomm, the US-based chipset manufacturer, promises that the smartbooks based on quad-core ARM processors will be thinner than Intel’s ultrabooks. Moreover, they will come with 4G LTE support and will be underpinned by Microsoft&r [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

First Laptop with 4.16GHz Clock Speed Unveiled – MSI GT780DX...

Have you ever seen a high-performance notebook computer packing Intel’s top-of-the-line Core i7 Extreme Edition with overclocking that blazes along at more than 4GHz? Have you ever experienced the superfast performance of a quad cor [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

AVADirect X7200

When I first picked up the AVADirect X7200, I almost dropped it. It's heavy--12 pounds, 10 ounces, without the 300W power brick, which weighs more than 3.5 pounds by itself--and it's also not well balanced, so the unit nearly tipp [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

New gaming laptop: Asus G74SX-A1

While most of the laptops available on the market aren’t dedicated to gamers, Asus has come up with the “G74SX-A1″ model to please the game-fanatics so they can have a good experience while playing games with a portable [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Philadelphia-area school district settles 4th laptop webcam ...

A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spying scandal has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a fourth student's claim. Lower Merion School District spokesman Doug Young tells The Philadelphia Inquirer the school bo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Aussies get first Chromebook laptops

Kogan will release a laptop based on Google's Chrome operating system on June 7, beating Asian PC makers Samsung and Acer as first to release the Chromebook. Google said that Chromebooks bring all of Google browser Chrome's speed, [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Laptops play catch up to the iPad, Xoom

Market researcher Gartner released a research note Thursday claiming that laptops are not meeting the demands of the social-networking era. So, will mobile PCs become more like the Xoom and the iPad, which are, in turn, larger versions o [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Thunderbolt: Intel’s Light Peak high-speed interface gets a ...

With the announcement of new MacBook Pros this morning came the news that Intel’s Light Peak technology is now known as Thunderbolt. News hit yesterday that Apple would likely be the first company to adopt the new I/O tech [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

AT&T to begin taking Atrix 4G pre-order beginning Feb 13th

Well, AT&T has said that it will begin accepting pre-orders for Motorola Atrix 4G handset from Feb 13th onwards. Powered by 2×1 GHz dual core processor, Atrix turns into a working laptop with the help of a laptop dock accompany [...]

Posted On : Feb, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Return of the laptop

In the last week of December 2010, research firm IDC India reported PC sales numbers that painted an optimistic picture for the Indian market. For the first three quarters of 2010, unit shipments stood at 7.4 million pieces working out t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Cheap Gaming Laptops

Looking to supplement your Steam account with a gaming laptop, but don't want to shell out $1,000+ for a top of the line PC? We have compiled a list of sub-$900 computers that will allow you to get your game on, just not at the highe [...]